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East Lansing, Mi, Us

East Lansing, Mi, Us

Lansing, Michigan, United States

Coordinates media requests and inquiriesWorks to communicate strategic communications objective in alignment with Army policy.Develops and maintained relationships with various media outlets and community leaders.Created professional designs, graphics, photos, videos and media products to support Army public affairsAdvises senior leaders in crisis-communications, media planning and strategic communicationsCoordinates international military partnerships and media communicationsActs as an ambassador and spokesperson for the Michigan Army National Guard

Manhattan, Kansas, United States

Coordinates and participates in meetings, conferences, panels, and other outreach activities in support of NBAFDevelops and proposes an outreach plan and in cooperation with ARS, APHIS, and USDA, manages website communications, social media, and print communications related to all activitiesConducts audits, assessments, and onsite reviews of outreach projects and initiatives to ensure the objectives of outreach are met.Coordinates and hosts scheduled visitors to the Visitors Center at NBAF and presents a virtual demonstration of the facility and the NBAF mission.Develops materials, communications, presentations, and other strategic materials that explain and defend NBAF programs and objectives.

•Worked to communicate strategic communications objective in alignment with U.S. Navy policy.•Developed and maintained relationships with various media outlets and community leaders.•Expertly created high-quality designs and original graphic artwork in support of the public affairs mission that resulted in better visual communication.•Proactively wrote and produced print and broadcast journalism news and feature stories for newspaper publications, magazines, television and radio broadcast stations.•Actively recorded professional still photography and video of high-risk military operations.•Filmed, edited and rendered professional quality videos and performed DVD-authoring.

Norfolk, Virginia Area

•Expertly created high-quality designs and original graphic artwork in support of the public affairs mission that resulted in better visual communication.•Proactively wrote and produced print and broadcast journalism news and feature stories for newspaper publications, magazines, television and radio broadcast stations. •Actively recorded professional still photography and video of high-risk military operations.•Worked on the team to redesign the unit’s logo and brand identity.•Filmed, edited and rendered professional quality videos and performed DVD-authoring.

Navy Yard Washington Dc

As a Web Content Manager for the Communication and Outreach Division, I broadcast the messages and themes of the United States Navy and its rich history to a global audience.•I manage several social media properties that entertain, educate and inform service members and the public of Navy's history and strong heritage. •I create postings, blogs, graphics, movies, and other visual products, optimized for social media that entertain, educate and inform targeted audiences.•I utilize my communication skills to breakdown complex historical and technical information to a global audience. •I research, analyze and develop various communication strategies, across multiple platforms to predict trends and reach the widest audiences possible. •I utilize interpersonal skills to develop and maintain relationships with multiple enterprises and key leaders to access audiences to achieve NHHC's goals.

Fort Meade Md

•Creating and developing strategic communication strategies to reach global audiences.•Tracking imagery produced during U.S. military operations, joint service exercises and other significant events in USCENTCOM area of responsibility. •Manages requests for Combat Camera assets to combatant commanders in the CENTCOM area of operations.•Editing and managing captioning data and metadata uploaded to Defense Video and Imagery Distribution System (DVIDS) •Collecting and selecting data for daily reports for combatant commanders and senior officials.•Providing customer service for combatant commanders regarding publication and Visual Information Distribution.•Overseas visual information lifecycle management for products produced in the CENTCOM area of operations.

Fort George G. Meade Maryland

•Utilize Adobe Creative Suite to expertly create high-quality designs and original graphic artwork in support of the Navy's public affairs mission.•Creates visual graphics and banner headline for Navy products like All Hands Magazine and www.navy.mil- Utilizes originality, creativity, critical thinking, and an acute awareness of audience and functionality to effectively convey complex ethics-related topics in an easy to understand digital or graphical format. - Provides assistance in the development of a wide variety of multimedia products. - Creates videos, graphs, charts, information graphics, photos, posters, pamphlets, booklets, reports, web banners, widgets, webpages, and other multimedia and data visualization products.

Fort Belvoir Va

•Proactively generates multiple news articles and press releases for both internal and external publications.•Monitors and controls social media engagements with the public.•Researches and prepares social media reports. •Designs individual graphics to accompany and support news stories.•Utilizes Adobe Creative Suite resources such as InDesign and Photoshop to design, various layouts and graphics for DLA's official magazine, Loglines.•Fluent in both Adobe Creative Suite and Microsoft Office.

United States

•Designed and created all professional media and artistic content for the units social media sites, web page and various media publications, including technological diagrams and technical documents for use within the company. •Effectively organized, directed and executed several media events, while proactively generating news stories about the unit and its operations. •Expanded unit’s social media audience to reach over 30,000 people on a daily basis. •Utilized current design trends, practices and developments to create professional grade graphics, posters, banners and brochures.•Published in over 20 news articles proactively engaging audiences and increasing public awareness to unit operations.•Personally invited to submit graphics and news content for Department of Defense briefings.•Regularly featured on the front page of the Department of Defense website.

Completion, Basic Multimedia Illustrator'S Course, 94%

-Traditional medium and fine arts production -Drawing -Illustration -Color theory -Perspective -Digital Imaging -Graphic Design -Adobe.

Public Affairs

I have mastered the use of vector-based graphic design software, multimedia authoring (digitized audio and video), web page design.

Bachelor Of Fine Arts (Bfa), Industrial And Product Design

Activities and Societies: Student Senate, Member-At-Large 2005-2006. Sigma Pi Fraternity InternationalMajor: Industrial Design Relevant.

Bachelor Of Fine Arts - Bfa, Industrial And Product Design

Activities and Societies: Wayne State Student Government, Sigma Pi Fraternity International